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Employment Act · 2026 Revised Edition · Part · Health, Accommodation and Medical Care

85. Hospital maintained by employers

(1)

The Commissioner may at any time having regard to the situation of any place of employment and the number of workmen employed and resident thereon, by order in writing, require any employer —

(a)

to construct within a reasonable time to be stated in such order, and thereafter to maintain at his own expense, a hospital on or in the immediate neighbourhood of any place of employment upon

Employment which workmen are employed by him with accommodation, for such number of patients as may be stated in such order; or

(b)

if there is already a hospital maintained by such employer, to enlarge or add to such hospital so as to provide accommodation for a further number of patients as stated in the order, and may further require him to employ a medical practitioner to reside at and have charge of such hospital or any hospital maintained by such employer and to provide such medical practitioner with fit and proper house accommodation to the satisfaction of the Commissioner.

(2)

If two or more such places of employment are so situated that the required accommodation for patients from such places of employment can be conveniently provided in one hospital, the Commissioner may —

(a)

instead of ordering each employer to construct and maintain a separate hospital, order all the employers concerned to construct within a reasonable time to be stated in such order, and thereafter to maintain at their own expense one hospital, in this section referred to as a group hospital, for all such places of employment with accommodation for such number of patients as may be stated in the order; or

(b)

if there is already a hospital erected and maintained jointly by two or more employers (whether constructed in pursuance of the provisions of this section or not), order them to enlarge or add to such hospital so as to provide accommodation for such further number of patients in their employment as may be stated in the order, and may further require such employers to employ a medical practitioner to take charge of such group hospital and to provide such medical practitioner with fit and proper house accommodation to the satisfaction of the

Commissioner.

(3)

Every employer referred to in subsection (3) shall be responsible for the due maintenance of the group hospital as the case may be and for the provision of the staff, equipment, diet and medicines and for the observance of any regulations made under this Act for the inspection and management of the hospital and the furnishing of any returns required as if the hospital were provided and maintained solely by him.

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